For over thirty years, this masterful ensemble has been the leading proponent of Latin American music for string quartet. The four will guide a journey through the Americas with tiny musical snapshots of sounds, characters, and images. Featuring works by Gershwin, Piazzolla, and Ponce.

SINGLE TICKET PRICES (or save up to 25% with a festival package)
Premium: $50 in advance | $55 at door
General Admission: $25 in advance | $30 at door
Student: $12 at door only, must show ID

Cuarteto Latinoamericano

Cuarteto Latinoamericano is one of the world’s most renowned classical music ensembles, for more than thirty years the leading proponent of Latin American music for string quartet. Founded in Mexico in 1982, the Cuarteto has toured extensively throughout Europe, North and South America, Israel, China, Japan and New Zealand. They have premiered more than a hundred works written for them and they continue to introduce new and neglected composers to the genre. Winners of the 2012 and 2016 Latin Grammys for Best Classical Recordings, they have been recognized with the Mexican Music Critics Association Award and have received Chamber Music America/ASCAP’s “Most Adventurous Programming” Award three times.

Cuarteto Latinoamericanos members are three brothers – violinists Saul and Aron Bitran and cellist Alvaro Bitran – with violist Javier Montiel. They have recorded more than 70 CDs, including nearly all the Latin American repertoire for string quartet. The Cuarteto has performed as soloist with many orchestras, and has collaborated with celebrated artists over the years, including conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, cellist Janos Starker, pianists Rudolph Buchbinder and Cyprien Katsaris, clarinetist Paul Meyer, guitarists Narciso Yepes, Sharon Isbin, David Tanenbaum, and Manuel Barrueco.

Under the auspices of the Sistema Nacional de Orquestas Juveniles of Venezuela, the Cuarteto has created the Latin American Academy for String Quartets, based in Caracas, which serves as a training ground for eight select young string quartets from the Sistema. For twenty-one years they were quartet-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Since 2004, they have been recipients of the México en Escena grant given by the Mexican government through FONCA (National Fund for Culture and the Arts).

The Austin Chamber Music Center is funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts. ACMC is also funded in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.